This is an analysis of the poem At The Zoo that begins with:
First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;
Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111101 1110100010101 111011010001 11101110001 1110100010001 111010101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; saw, i, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
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